Dispatch from Cyprus
The one thing you’ve probably learned from these little vignettes is that life is never dull in Cyprus. It’s a country filled with both passion and pathos, and it often plays itself out in ordinary life…such as having your neighbor’s swimming pool blown up by a bomb. “Bomb!!??” you’re probably saying to yourself. Yeah…a bomb.... Continue Reading
The folly of God-denial – Even Einstein Wasn’t an Atheist!
I’ve never quite understood this. Scripture admonishes: “The fool has said in his heart ‘there is no God.’” Secularists need to relax. They already have their own holiday: April First. As the political season heats up it occurs to me that, as important as elections are, unless the hearts of men are changed, the heart... Continue Reading
More on Vacationaries: A Response to the Response
We don’t need more mission trips that do casual labor. We’ve got that covered. But there are certain types of medical personnel who are desperately needed; it goes without saying that the longer they can stay, the more of a contribution they will make. I will happily pick them up at the airport, and give... Continue Reading
When Your Preacher Is Not John Piper
Either at a conference or on the internet, you have heard exceptional preaching, but each Sunday you’re back in your simple little home church that hardly anybody beyond your town knows about, with its “nobody” of a pastor who will probably never preach to thousands. Many who have had the privilege of hearing John Piper... Continue Reading
The Book of Books: What Literature Owes the Bible
The Bible is the model for and subject of more art and thought than those of us who live within its influence, consciously or unconsciously, will ever know. Literatures are self-referential by nature, and even when references to Scripture in contemporary fiction and poetry are no more than ornamental or rhetorical — indeed, even when... Continue Reading
Response to “Short Term Missionaries vs. Vacationaries”
Editor’s Note: We do not maintain a separate section for ‘Letters To The Editor’. However, we do invite such and may publish them among the regular articles in our Opinion and Commentary Section, such as the one below. When I read the article about “Short term Missionaries vs. Vacationary” I had mixed feelings. It was... Continue Reading
Living in ‘Idiotville’
A muscle atrophies if it is not used. Similarly, a mind becomes lazy if it is not well fed. And a weak mind dumbs-down our politics. We elect people we come to dislike because too many of us require no more of them than we require of ourselves. We then wonder why little seems to... Continue Reading
Civilization Coming Unglued? The Most Important Question Facing Us in 2012
The greatest challenge before us in 2012 is not merely to choose an individual in America who will become president and expose this ignorance and lead us back to the truth, but to recover what Churchill called for, “a large majority of mankind united together to defend” the truth that got us where we are... Continue Reading
The “Inconvenience” of Motherhood
Enjoy this stage because it all goes downhill from here…This is when they are sweet, and then they grow up to be a three-year old, a pre-teen, and a teenager…I remember when mine were this little and now they are a pain… When I was 27 years old my doctor told me that I would... Continue Reading
For many, ‘Losing My Religion’ isn’t just a song: It’s life
Personal experience, personal authority matter most. Hence Scripture and tradition are quaint, irrelevant, artifacts. Instead of followers of Jesus, they’re followers of 5,000 unseen “friends” on Facebook or Twitter. When Ben Helton signed up for an online dating service, under “religion” he called himself “spiritually apathetic.” Sunday mornings, when Bill Dohm turns his eyes toward... Continue Reading